Wedding acceptance ... and a beheaded sunflower .....

I wanted to make an acceptance card for a wedding invitation and thought I might make it to suit this weeks LOTV challenge - bingo - choose any line so I chose ribbon, flower and jewels.  Actually, when I looked at the new challenge at LOTV which is set every Thursday before I started my card, I was gobsmacked to see I had made the top three! wow, I am thrilled to bits and immediately got my badge to put in the side bar.

I used this really cute die cut square from LOTV, and cupcake paper and added a bit of Stardust stickles to the bunnies and the cherries and cake stands etc.  I added a swirl cut with the doohickey die, fuschia ruffle edge sheer ribbon on top of silver glitter mesh plus a pink/white two tone 30mm mulberry rose, a pink crown pin and a pink heart pin (ribbon, rose and pins all from Ribbon Girl) and you can see I love pink almost as much as I love anything that glitters!

I decorated the inside to complement the front and added our acceptance note

I typed the sentiment myself to make the card more personal and you can see the sweet cupcake paper here (sorry can't remember which pack it is from) but I thought it was relevant as I'm sure there will be yummy food at the reception 

and here is the poor beheaded sunflower - my hubby managed to empty the pots on the back patio yesterday afternoon when the wind had gone down, and I passed him the scissors with the request to cut the flowers so I could pop them in water  ................... I should have asked him to leave a stalk ...... poor flower!

See you all tomorrow,

Mary G x

Gently falling snow ......................

'Let it Snow' is the current LOTV challenge and I used one of their very useful die-cuts showing a bird house with snow gently falling for this Christmas card in traditional clours

I added Stardust Stickles to the snow on the image, a 38mm gold glitter mesh ribbon and some 12mm gold lame ribbon (both from the Ribbon Girl)

The background paper was left over from last Christmas and I used a LOTV stamp for the sentiment which was cut out with a nestie.  The white Christmas rose and tiny leaves are from WO and the red berries, small roses and pretty blossoms are from Ribbon Girl.  The last embellishment I used was a few self adhesive gems - I do like a bit of bling and shimmer!

I will enter this card into the

LOTV 'Let it Snow'

Hannah and Friends 'Glimmer, Flowers, Dies'

The ABC Challenge 'Anything Goes'

and here's a sneaky of my little sewing project - more tomorrow

Mary G x